• Rating:
• Genre: Mystery
• Movie Type: Crime Comedy, Detective Film
• Themes: Amateur Sleuths
• Director: Lowell Sherman
• Main Cast: Edna May Oliver, Ken Murray, Roscoe Ates, Kitty Kelly, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
• Release Year: 1932
• Country: US
• Run Time: 65 minutes

Plot

Edna May Oliver portrays a society dowager called for jury duty on a murder trial wherein a pretty young woman is accused of killing her older husband. She takes her job quite seriously, and soon is playing both "prosecutor" and "DA" with judge and witnesses alike. In this unorthodox but highly entertaining fashion, Ms. Oliver gets to the truth and exposes the genuine murderer before the final fade-out. Incidentally, despite the title, there are gentlemen on the jury, but all eyes are on the formidable Ms. Oliver. Ladies of the Jury was remade in 1937 as We're on the Jury, with Helen Broderick in the Edna May Oliver role. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Edna May Oliver - Mrs. Crane
• Ken Murray - Wayne Dazy
• Roscoe Ates - Andrew MacKaig
• Kitty Kelly - Mayme Mixter
• Guinn "Big Boy" Williams - Steve Bromm

Kate Price - Mrs. McGuire; Cora Witherspoon - Lily Pratt; Jill Esmond - Mrs. Gordon; Robert McWade - Judge; Lita Chevret; Susan Fleming - Suzanne; Tom Francis - Jury Room Officer; Leyland Hodgson - Chauncey Gordon; George Humbert; Florence Lake; Alan Roscoe; George Andre Beranger; Charles Dow Clark - Jay J. Pressley; Morgan Galloway

Credit

Marion Dix - Screenwriter; Charles L. Kimball - Editor; William Le Baron - Producer; Jack MacKenzie - Cinematographer; Lowell Sherman - Director; Max Steiner - Composer (Music Score); Salisbury Field - Screenwriter; Eddie Welch - Screenwriter; John Frederick Ballard - Play Author

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